WordWeb
Help Us Improve
Links
NEW iPhone Audio English dictionary
Noun: rundown 'rún`dawn
- A concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court)
- summation, summing up
- Having the spring unwound
"a run-down watch"
- Worn and broken down by hard use
"a run-down neighbourhood"
- creaky, decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, woebegone
- Trace
"We are running down a few tips"
- check out
- Move downward
"The water ran down"
- Injure or kill by running over, as with a vehicle
- run over
- Use up all one's strength and energy and stop working
"At the end of the march, I ran down"
- poop out, peter out, run out, conk out
- Examine hastily
"She ran down the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi"
- scan, skim, rake, glance over
- Deplete
"run down one's savings"
- exhaust, play out, sap, tire
- Pursue until captured
"They ran down the fugitive"
Derived forms: running down, ran down, run down, rundowns, runs down
See also: malfunctioning, nonfunctional, worn
Type of: act on, chase, chase after, consume, course, deplete, dog, eat, eat up, examine, exhaust, fatigue, feed, flow, follow up on, give chase, go after, injure, jade, pall, pursue, run, run through, see, summary, sum-up, tag, tail, tire, track, trail, use up, weary, wipe out, wound
Encyclopedia: Rundown
Nearest
run a risk
run across
run afoul
run aground
run along
run around
run away
run bases
run batted in
run by
run down
run dry
run for
run into
run low
run off
run on
run out
run over
run roughshod
run short
run across
run afoul
run aground
run along
run around
run away
run bases
run batted in
run by
run down
run dry
run for
run into
run low
run off
run on
run out
run over
run roughshod
run short